Sautéed Brussels sprouts are a fantastic holiday or everyday side dish. This version with dried cherries and almonds wins with the sweet-savory flavors. If you’re here for a some last-minute healthy Thanksgiving recipe ideas, you’re in the right place! Be sure to check out My Best Thanksgiving Recipe & Cooking Tips, which includes everything from…
Whole Wheat Muffins with Tart Cherries & Almonds
Whole Wheat Muffins, like these ones with tart cherries and almonds, are just the thing to have tucked in the freezer when you need a quick breakfast or snack option. Thank you to The Cherry Marketing Institute for helping me to share this recipe with you. Every time I make muffins, I wonder why I…
Kale, Toasted Almond & Orange Salad Recipe + 5 Other Salad Recipes
This kale salad recipe features the sweetest seasonal oranges, crunchy toasted almonds and a light Dijon vinaigrette. Plus, 5 of my favorite salad recipe ideas! When people hear the term “healthy eating”, salads are typically the first things that pop to mind. “Ugh, rabbit food,” they say. That’s understandable, considering that the first healthy food…
Kale Salad with Raspberries and Parmesan Crisps
There’s nothing like a kale salad with fresh berries to inject the flavor of summer into winter! Thank you to Kitchen PLAY, Driscoll’s Berries and Whole Foods Markets for helping me to share this recipe with you. This is the season of comfort foods and as much as I am smitten by the soups, stews…
Cinnamon Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Toasted Almonds
Put aside all of those childhood memories of Brussels sprouts. These roasted ones, with dried cranberries and toasted almonds, will knock your socks off! I am willing to bet some serious cash that if anyone tries roasted Brussels sprouts, they will never (EVER!) boil or steam these mini cabbages again. The same can be said…
Roasted Almonds with Smoked Paprika & Rosemary Recipe
These easy (only 5 ingredients!) roasted almonds are the perfect healthy snack. Flavor, flavor, flavor…and tons of nutritional benefits! I’m a serial snacker. Not cereal…serial. A little bit of this, a little bit of that – all day long. Sometimes it’s hummus and veggies, other times it’s mini quesadillas or carrot cake granola bites, and…
Couscous with Nectarines & Toasted Almonds Recipe
This sweet, tangy and nutty whole wheat couscous recipe with nectarine and toasted almonds can be whipped up in only 10 minutes. Okay, ‘fess up. Who pressed the fast-forward button? I swear on a wedge of Brie cheese (that’s serious stuff, people) that summer just started last week. And yet, I had to send my…
No-Bake Cherry Almond Granola Bites {Low Sugar, Gluten-Free}
Keep these No-Bake Cherry Almond Granola Bites on hand for easy, healthy snacking. The kids will never know that they are low sugar! There are certain ground rules put in place once school is over, otherwise summer break has the potential to turn into a video game-playing, sugar-eating spiral that will cause Mum (i.e., me)…
Almond Meringue Recipe with Raspberry Sorbet
A low-fat dessert recipe for Valentine’s Day: Almond Meringue with Raspberry Sorbet. Talk about going from one extreme to the next. Just as we flip the channel from a screenful of men dressed in heaving padding and beating the tar out of each other, then we find it’s time to start talking about pink hearts,…
Raspberry Crumb Bar Recipe with Almond Streusel Topping
Any tradition that starts with fresh fruit and a streusel topping is bound to be a keeper, I say. The first summer after I started this blog, I posted Spiked Blueberry Crumb Bars, a streusel-topped fruit bar, kicked up with a splash of rum. Each summer since then, I posted a new version: Summer Cherry…
Seared Salmon with Pesto, Sauteed Peppers & Toasted Almonds Recipe
When I was a kid, my dad and I were fishing buddies. We were experts (well, by our own standards) at catching rainbow trout in the lakes of British Columbia. However, once it came to the big fish in the sea…well, let’s just say that our hooks were sadly rejected by the coveted salmon in…
Whole Wheat Pumpkin Muffins with Toasted Almonds Recipe
Fall is diligently trying to make its arrival. The leaves are barely starting to turn, yellow and red splotches amongst acres of green. However, fall’s arrival is being slowed by our unseasonably warm weather. Perhaps Mother Nature is making up for Utah’s unusually cold and rainy June by warming us with temperatures in the mid…
Grilled Mushroom Sliders with Zucchini & Cilantro Almond Pesto Recipe
When we were on our two-week summer vacation, several blogging friends kindly stepped in to share their talents with you. The first post came from Amanda of The Cilantropist, who “wow”-ed everyone with her tempting Orange Cantaloupe Sorbet recipe, and brilliant styling and photos. Well, now it’s my turn to return the favor with these…
Shaved Asparagus Salad with Balsamic Syrup & Almonds Recipe
In the spring, we tend to eat asparagus until it feels like our skin is going to turn green. To avoid the inevitable overload, I try to dream up new ways of preparing the popular vegetable. Typically, I grill it with some olive oil, salt and pepper or steam it, as in Asparagus with Hazelnuts…
Strawberry & Goat Cheese Green Salad with Basil Vinaigrette Recipe
This fresh green salad gets a pop of color and vitamins from sliced strawberries, and is mixed with creamy goat cheese and basil vinaigrette for extra flavor. “If I actually liked the ingredients in there, that salad would look really good,” said my 9-year old son as I was photographing this recipe. Umm…thank you? Well,…
Lemon & Almond Basil Pesto Recipe
When my husaband and I lived in our small apartment in New York City, I was determined to have an herb garden. Living on the second floor of a five-story building, however, did not allow access to any idyllic rooftop gardens. Rockefellers we were not. On our kitchen windowsill, which was no more than 6-inches…
Quinoa with Braised Fennel, Thyme, & Toasted Almonds Recipe
“What the heck is qui-noh-ah?” asked our house guest. First, let’s straighten out the pronunciation thing. Although it’s counterintuitive, this powerful little grain is actually pronounced “keen-wah”. We had to practice that a few times. After taking a taste of some cooked quinoa, our guest proceeded to eat it with his tamale order from the…
Cinnamon & Almond Meringue Star Cookies (Zimtsterne) Recipe
I knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary brunch when everyone at the table pulled out DSLR cameras (except me, with my tiny – but proud – point and shoot) and the waiter brought over an extra table so that we could arrange our cookie exchange treats for their photo shoots. It could only…